St. Paul daily globe., 1887-03-19
DAKOTA DoEs AND DAsHEs.
News Notes of snterest TO the PcOpI e
of the Great Territory.

of the Great Territory.
Little is kuowE in the territory at large of
Prof Dye, appointed by Gov. Church at the
head of the educational board of the terri
tory. He is now serving his third term as
superintendent of the schools of Sphinx
county, and strongly Endorsed by all the
papers of the county. which have never
agreed upon anything else. But the Scotland
Citizen and some other Democratic papers are
not pleased. us Prof. Dye is q Republican in a
county that gives 1000 majority that way,
and they say that a competent and equally
good man who was a Democrat was an ap-
plicant. The only explanation they can find
is that DYE came from New York state The
Citizen. which is published by o son of the
Democratic patriarch, Gov. Ziebach, Indicates
its grief in this way: "Dye. Benton, Ward,
Smith, Mcclure and Boyntop. all territorial
appointees of Gov. Church. are New York
men. Without a man can trace residence
in New York state his prospects for Office
with our New York governor are slim.
Sargent county has had several scandal
cases and last week elopement. e. Z.
Bromley, the young son of the postmaster at
Ripley, eloped with Miss Cecil Robinson, II
years DID, daughter of Mrs. G. W. Holcomh.
They drove to a justice near Harlem, who re-
fused to marry them on account of the youth
of the bride, but relented when she swore
she was 16. This was early in the evening,
and having obtained the privilege of remain
ing at the Justices over night they thought
they would spend few hours Of honeymoon
visiting friends about the neighborhood.
They returned about ii in high spirits TO re-
tire. bat 10 their dismay the indignant and
forbidding mother Of the bride was there.
She had followed them, and in spite of en-
treaties and tears took the girl home, leaving
the disconsolate groom to a lonely couch
But the couple mean to outwit the mother
and live together yet.
Since the passage of the local option law
the w. c. Il. U. and the other temperance
forces are girdlng up their loins and putting
on their arInor for Il red-hot campaign. Mrs.
Barker, the Dakota president Of the w. c. r.
e., has gone north to some of the missionary
fields, Col. Plummer is out of the Caledonia
Jingles and attuning his sonorous eloquence
for the new campaign. The law requires the
petition of one-third of the voters in county
to secure a vote upon license. In perhaps
half the counties the requisite number of
voters are ready to sign petition presented,
but in many great deal of temperance agi-
lation will be needed to bring the voters up to
this mark Temperance orators will food
the territory, and especially the counties
that have not declared against license, and it
is probable that very few counties will be
considered too hopeless for effort.
The confidence man and Swindler has been
operating about Mitchell in this way. He
claimed to be an agent for the Phoenix In
surance company, OF Brooklyn, and worked
policy written upon the bllnk of the Wahpe-
ton company for So 500, the premium being
about $l60. He knew he had not taken ont
such insurance, and went to locking the
matter up. He found on the
county records chattel mort
gage for the $3.50 with his signature. He re-
membered signing a note for SIG, but no
mortgage. The note had no doubt been in
creased from $l6 to $3.50 and sold to an inuo-
cent party, and by some trick his name Sc
cured 10 the mortgagee. But people are
likely to continue to be swindled as long rs
they sign papers for Strangers, or papers
they do not understand.
The mortality among Dakota newspapers
the past winter has been very great, and still
many localities have more papers than can
get decent living. Papers are always estab-
lished on townSites, and often the towns re-
fuse TO materiaiize and the paper starves out
Land and foreclosure notices keep some alive
for a time. One paper in q hail district in the
extreme notth, last week had fifty foreclos-
ures and but column or two of business ad-
vertising. That is a good thing for the ed
itor. but not good advertisement for that
section. The time is about past for papers in
Dakota to live on booms and expectations
They have to come down to legitimate busi-
ness. There are great many very excellent
papers in the territory doing well, and they
are crowding out the shams.
That South Dakota state machine, which
Union over the heads Of the do orkeepers,
has apparently passed into that psychologist
cal stale termed by the sect of adventists as
"soul-sleepiug," possibly with hope of
resurrection next wiuter in case the people
at the polls in November should eclare for
division. If the majority is for unity, there
will hardly be any serious attempt to per-
form the resurrection act The efforts of it's
friends will be concentrated for the time in
trying to induce the people to vote in favor
of division. The present indications are not
encouraging for their success, although in
the North there is much indifference on the
subject.
1t might be judged from papers some sec
tions that agreat many farmers have got into
trouble by borrowing money of the numerous
loan companies. J. FL. Noting, IN Roberts
county, explains how he was put to trouble
and annoyance. He borrowed $500 at IL per
cent, tt e interest payable in two coupons
one due the company ut 10 and the other for
the loan agents at 2 per cent. He paid tue
first, abd applied repeatedly for the small
one. but was told every time 1t had not come.
Looking over local paper lately he was as
touished to see his land advertised under
foreclosure. He could get no satisfaction
about IT. and was put to large expense and
great yexation, all fol Sc and the trickery of
the agents.
Woonsocket adopted prohibition for the
first time about two months ago, and there is
much difference of opinion as to the situation
and fight for license in prospect. II is ad-
mitted that liquor is not sold openly, and
there is less drunkenness, with rarely ten
ant of the "lockup" or work for the police,
but the other side insist that liquor is sold in
back rooms and secretly and no revenue de-
rived from it. The Drohibitionists admit this